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   On 11/7/24 00:19, Mark Brader wrote:   
   >   
   > * Game 4, Round 7 - Literature - War Novels   
   >   
   > For tonight's literary round, we will name a war novel and give you   
   > the author.  You give us the *war* the work is centered around.   
   > Answers may repeat, and me sufficiently specific in each case.   
   >   
   > 1. "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy.   
      
   Napoleonic War   
      
   > 2. "Dr. Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak.   
      
   Crimean War   
      
   > 3. "The Winds of War" by Herman Wouk.   
      
   WWII   
      
   > 4. "The Short-Timers" by Gustav Hasford.   
      
   WWI; WWII   
      
   > 5. "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell.   
      
   American Civil War   
      
   > 6. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway.   
      
   WWI   
      
   > 7. "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" by James A. Michener.   
      
   WWII   
      
   > 8. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" by Pierre Boulle.   
      
   WWII   
      
   > 9. "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.   
   > 10. "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque.   
      
   WWII   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * Game 4, Round 8 - Geography - Straits   
   >   
   > The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a strait as a comparatively   
   > narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water.  This round   
   > will test your knowledge of various straits around the world.   
   > Except as specified, in each case name them.   
   >   
   > 1. This strait separates the North and South Islands of New   
   >     Zealand, and connects the Tasman Sea with the South Pacific   
   >     Ocean.  It's named for the first European commander to sail   
   >     through it -- in 1770.   
      
   Cook   
      
   >   
   > 2. The Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits, along with the Sea of   
   >     Marmara, collectively form a connection between which two seas?   
      
   Aegean and Black   
      
   >   
   > 3. Which strait separates the eastern tip of Sicily and the western   
   >     tip of Calabria in Southern Italy?   
      
   Messina   
      
   >   
   > 4. Which strait in the Gulf of St. Lawrence separates Prince Edward   
   >     Island from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia?   
   >   
   > 5. What's the name of the strait which runs between the Persian   
   >     Gulf and the Gulf of Oman?  One of the world's most strategically   
   >     important waterways, it's bordered by Iran and Oman.   
      
   Hormuz   
      
   >   
   > 6. What is the name of the strait that forms the narrowest part   
   >     of the English Channel?   
      
   Dover   
      
   >   
   > 7. What strait runs between the Indonesian island of Sumatra   
   >     and the Malay Peninsula?  It connects the Andaman Sea with the   
   >     Singapore Strait and the South China Sea.   
      
   Malacca   
      
   >   
   > 8. Name the strait that joins the Mediterranean and the Atlantic   
   >     Ocean   
      
   Gibraltar   
      
   >   
   > 9. The Bering Strait runs between Russia's Chukchi Peninsula and   
   >     Alaska's Seward Peninsula, connecting the Pacific and Arctic   
   >     Oceans.  What was the nationality of the strait's namesake,   
   >     Vitus Bering, who entered it in 1728?   
      
   Danish   
      
   >   
   > 10. What's the name of the strait that runs between Greenland and   
   >     Baffin Island?   
      
   Davis Strait   
      
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